Rumsfeld judged the inherited Cold War basing structure unaffordable

Evidence

The day after Bush’s first presidential inauguration, Rumsfeld convened a small staff meeting. One of the staffers, Raymond DuBois, recounted how Rumsfeld told his staff, “We can no longer afford a post–Cold War [basing] apparatus.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 132

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 132
• XREF: connects to: Rumsfeld framed intelligence failure as a failure of imagination — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 519
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Rumsfeld framed intelligence failure as a failure of imagination — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 519